Voices
Katie Prejean McGrady
Katie Prejean McGrady was a U.S. delegate sent by the U.S.C.C.B. to the Vatican’s pre-synod gathering of young people. She is a Catholic speaker and the author of Follow: Your Lifelong Adventure with Jesus (Ave Maria Press, $13.95). She lives in Lake Charles, La., with her husband and daughter.
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Articles By Katie Prejean McGrady
Faith Faith in Focus
Hurricane Laura made me evacuate my home at 9-months pregnant. I’m still trusting God.
Katie Prejean McGradyAugust 27, 2020
Even in the the eye of a storm that seems so colossal we can see no tomorrow, I know this: God is good.
Faith Last Take
What will it take to keep young people in the church?
Katie Prejean McGradyAugust 14, 2019
How do we keep them, or anyone really, Catholic? To keep them, we have to stop asking that question in the first place.
Faith Faith in Focus
Want to keep your kids Catholic? Make your home a church.
Katie Prejean McGradyJanuary 22, 2019
The church is my home because my home was a domestic church.
Faith Faith in Focus
Catholic parents: It’s O.K. to let your kids believe in Santa
Katie Prejean McGradyDecember 18, 2018
Every encounter with Santa Claus is a chance to teach our kids about a deep love for Jesus.
Faith Faith in Focus
Why I want my daughter to grow up in a noisy, chaotic Catholic Church
Katie Prejean McGradyOctober 24, 2018
A silent church is a dead church because life makes joyful noise.
Pope Francis prepares to take a photo with young people at a presynod gathering of youth delegates in Rome March 19. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Faith Short Take
Why we still need a synod on youth
Katie Prejean McGradySeptember 04, 2018
A room full of bishops talking about themselves and what they need to do to govern effectively is not the right move at this time.
Faith Faith in Focus
Dear fellow Catholics: the church needs you now more than ever
Katie Prejean McGradyAugust 27, 2018
What do we do now? What happens next? We stay Catholic.
Storm clouds pass over a a Catholic church in Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania attorney general released a grand jury report Aug. 14 on a months-long investigation into abuse claims spanning a 70-year period in six dioceses, which included Pittsburgh. (CNS photo/Jason Cohn, Reuters)
Faith Faith in Focus
Dear Catholic bishops: This is not the time to play defense
Katie Prejean McGradyAugust 16, 2018
We need our shepherds to stand with us, their flock, and not merely flock together.
Faith Short Take
The synod on young people needs to listen to all voices—Catholic or not
Katie Prejean McGradyMarch 29, 2018
Pope Francis and the bishops truly want to understand what is driving young people today—that could challenge all of us.